Freedom from Fear and Distress
This freedom means to ensure conditions and treatments to avoid mental suffering. The New Standard team gets this common question: "How can you tell if the animal is not mentally well?"
"Well, this is easy to tell," states Kevin. "The New Standard team, in our build loose sow buildings, can walk around without animals fussing. They are not jumpy, agitated."
If animals are that way and are aggressive towards each other, then producers know their animal's mental state is not well.
Nedap Systems
New Standard appreciates the design of the Nedap System ESF. It's designed to protect them with a hallway that closes off from the sides and behind to ensure safe eating.
ESF System
This ESF system allows them to eat at their own pace without feeling rushed or fighting for food.
Forward Exit
The design of the forward exit is crucial. This allows the animal, once finished with eating, to be reacquainted with the group and pushed back into the barn system. This helps to eliminate the fighting and aggression for food within the animals.
Backward Exit
The design of having an animal back out of the feeding area goes against the nature of the animal. It creates fear and distress with the animals, and fighting and aggression can ignite. Kevin states, "Imagine eating the driest piece of bread (without the use of proper water to feed ratio), then having to back your chair up into a crowd that is trying to get in." This analogy puts into perspective the issues with backward exits in a feeding system.
Conclusion
In New Standard's forward exit style feeding systems, the animal can eat calmly. With the design of our barns, the animal has the freedom to do what it needs to do.
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